Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump

Men's long jump at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany
Date	8 September 1972 & 9 September 1972
Competitors	36 from 25 nations
Medalists
Randy Williams  United States Hans Baumgartner  West Germany Arnie Robinson  United States

These are the official results of the Men's long jump event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on 8 & 9 of September.

Qualifying

All jumpers reaching 7.80 m (25 ft 7 in), shown in blue and the top 12 including ties, shown in green, advanced to the final round.

Overall Qualifying

Overall	Athlete	Nationality	Group	Mark	1	2	3
1	Randy Williams	United States	A	8.34	8.34	-	-
2	Preston Carrington	United States	B	8.22	-	-	8.22
3	Grzegorz Cybulski	Poland	A	8.01	7.61	8.01	-
4	Arnie Robinson	United States	B	7.99	7.99	-	-
5	Leonid Barkovskiy	Soviet Union	A	7.98	7.66	7.98	-
6	Hans Baumgartner	West Germany	A	7.98	7.98	-	-
7T	Max Klauß	East Germany	B	7.93	7.93	-	-
7T	Joshua Owusu	Ghana	B	7.93	7.93	-	-
9	Valeriy Podluzhniy	Soviet Union	A	7.91	7.91	-	-
10	Ari Väänänen	Finland	A	7.90	7.67	7.90	-
11	Alan Lerwill	Great Britain	B	7.86	7.86	-	-
12	Jacques Rousseau	France	A	7.79	7.77	7.79	7.51
13	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan	Soviet Union	B	7.77	x	7.77	x
14	Jaroslav Brož	Czechoslovakia	A	7.76	7.76	x	7.74
15	Bruce Field	Australia	A	7.76	x	7.59	7.76
16	Rolf Bernhard	Switzerland	A	7.68	7.30	7.68	7.61
17	Gábor Katona	Hungary	A	7.68	x	7.68	x
18	Lynn Davies	Great Britain	A	7.64	7.64	7.53	x
19	Josef Schwarz	West Germany	B	7.63	7.63	x	7.62
20	Jerzy Homziuk	Poland	A	7.63	7.63	x	x
21	Finn Bendixen	Norway	A	7.61	7.46	7.45	7.61
22	Andreas Gloerfeld	West Germany	B	7.60	x	7.60	x
23	Wilfredo Maisonave	Puerto Rico	B	7.58	7.35	7.58	x
24	Christian Tourret	France	B	7.55	7.54	7.53	7.55
25	Carol Corbu	Romania	A	7.54	7.54	7.52	7.46
26	Henry Jackson	Jamaica	A	7.50	7.11	7.24	7.50
27	Milán Matos	Cuba	B	7.47	7.42	7.46	7.47
28	Takayoshi Kawagoe	Japan	B	7.47	7.45	7.47	6.72
29	Michael Ahey	Ghana	A	7.39	x	7.39	-
30	Mohinder Gill Singh	India	A	7.30	x	x	7.30
31	Martin Adouna	Togo	B	7.25	7.21	7.25	7.10
32	Linus Rebmann	Switzerland	B	7.25	x	7.25	5.68
33	Chen Chin-Long	Republic of China	B	6.79	6.79	x	x
34	Lionel Caero	Bolivia	A	6.77	6.77	6.60	6.52
35	Bilal Said Al-Azma	Saudi Arabia	A	6.32	6.32	6.15	6.16
-	Jesper Tørring	Denmark	B	NM	x	x	x
-	Mansor Dia	Senegal	A	DNS
-	Patrich Onyango	Kenya	A	DNS
-	Jack Pani	France	A	DNS
-	Jong Gu Hyon	North Korea	A	DNS
-	Milan Spasojević	Yugoslavia	B	DNS
-	Samuela Yavala	Fiji	B	DNS
-	Byambajavyn Enkhbaatar	Mongolia	B	DNS
-	Luiz Carlos de Souza	Brazil	B	DNS
-	Jan Kobuszewski	Poland	B	DNS
-	Samuel Igun	Nigeria	B	DNS
-	Dennis Freeman	Liberia	B	DNS
-	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy	B	DNS

Final

At the end of three jobs the top eight received another three jumps. The remaining were eliminated from medal contention.

Overall	Athlete	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Randy Williams	United States	8.24	8.24	7.32	7.72	7.80	7.77	-
	Hans Baumgartner	West Germany	8.18	x	7.99	8.18	x	7.83	8.05
	Arnie Robinson	United States	8.03	x	7.89	7.95	x	8.03	x
4	Joshua Owusu	Ghana	8.01	7.71	7.77	7.88	7.70	7.98	8.01
5	Preston Carrington	United States	7.99	7.99	x	x	7.95	7.63	7.69
6	Max Klauß	East Germany	7.96	7.51	7.94	7.96	7.86	6.13	7.88
7	Alan Lerwill	Great Britain	7.91	x	7.91	7.69	x	7.78	7.85
8	Leonid Barkovskiy	Soviet Union	7.75	7.56	7.53	7.75	7.61	7.56	x
9	Valeriy Podluzhniy	Soviet Union	7.72	x	7.56	7.72
10	Jacques Rousseau	France	7.65	7.65	7.37	7.52
11	Ari Väänänen	Finland	7.62	7.62	7.57	7.60
12	Grzegorz Cybulski	Poland	7.58	7.44	7.58	7.53

References

• Sports-reference
• Official report